DGI art collection is designed to help showcase, gather, and manage our slowly growing collection of artefacts. I plan to host open calls for commissions, set up auctions, and organize collaborative projects with other museums and groups.
What is an art collection? Could it be a memory of our shared joy or trauma? Maybe it is a warehouse full of dead objects? Or maybe it is a set of absurd objects that only matter to a particular people?
This room and it’s collections is a research project to answer these questions. I also hope it can provide practical support for some sisters projects of Museum and DGI.
A collection always has boundaries; it embodies the idea of ownership and selection (and thus the exclusion of something). By very fact of collecting, we select, shift through, and reject things, ideas, and social relationships.
If “culture is a creative refusal” then collection is one of the best way to manifest it!
So, we start with collection of the ideas for the playgrounds for the room about Play and Games.
I am also planning to collect Carnaval Costumes, Children books from different countries, Protests Posters and Postcards and, more then that, I am looking for collaborations with people who would proposal ideas and practical settings to collect and to show what have been collected.
I was thinking about the Playgrounds Expo to show the outcome of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Children’s Playground Discussion circle, but we start with the AptArt “Make Carnival not war” exhibition to be held at Rowley Way on October 31, 2024.